Kamis, 12 September 2013

Teen Drops $33K on Historic Wikileaks Server Using Dad’s eBay Account


After 10 canicule and 93 bids, an celebrated server acclimated to host Wikileaks’ abundance accession of abstruse abstracts has awash on eBay — to a 17-year-old who acclimated his dad’s email annual afterwards permission. 

Swedish ISP Bahnhof, which had hosted Wikileaks for about eight months starting aback in 2010, absitively to advertise the server endure week, acquisitive to accession money for two charities: Reporters Afterwards Borders and the 5th of July Foundation, a agenda rights group.
The acceptable bid was $33,000. But according to Bahnhof CEO John Karlung, anon afterwards the bargain bankrupt this morning, he got a bulletin from the buyer, adage he wants to aback out of the deal. His son bought the account afterwards his ability or permission.
According to eBay’s records, the boy initially bid $10,200 for the server, aback on September 7. He again bid seven added times as the bargain acrimonious up. 

After it was accessible in June 2011, the server — a Dell Poweredge R410 account maybe $4,000 — had served as a chat section in a bar in one of Bahhof’s Stockholm abstracts centers. Bahnhof has wiped the abstracts from it and is affairs it as a actual curiosity.
Wikileaks — which wasn’t in band to account from the bargain — was no fan of the sale, adage that Bahnhof had abstract the role played by the server, and that the Swedish ISP “did not seek permission to bargain the WikiLeaks server or to use it for business purposes, or to forward the gain to others.”
The server was one of several acclimated to host the Iraq War Logs, but was never a primary server, Wikileaks said. 

“We do not abutment Bahnhof base the aloofness and acceptable name of their audience for business purposes,” the whistle-blowing accouterments said via Twitter endure week. 

Wikileaks never in fact endemic the box. They busy it from Bahnhof. 

Karlung wouldn’t analyze the buyer, adage he capital to bottle his privacy. But he put us in blow with the afflicted server-winner. He says he’s an automated aliment artisan who lives just alfresco of Lisbon. He forwarded us the letters he beatific Karlung afterwards his son won the auction. 

“My son is 17 years old and is crazy about cabal theory,” the champ wrote to Karlung. 

In an email interview, the abandoned champ said that he was “speechless” if he abstruse about his son’s purchase. But they haven’t had time to allocution yet. “A added austere chat will be tomorrow,” he said. 

The number-two applicant now gets a attempt at owning a section of history — for $32,900. Lucky them — provided their bid is legit.

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